Trainer John O’Shea has been waiting patiently for talented import Diamil to find conditions to suit and after a pleasing first-up run, and the promise of forgiving ground, he’s hoping to strike at Rosehill on Saturday.

Connections of Summer Cup topweight Huetor are banking on the cream rising to the top.

There’s no sense of urgency from the John O’Shea camp about whether Lost And Running secures a TAB Everest slot on the back of his first-up performance at Randwick on Saturday.

Mark Newnham will have three stakes contenders on the penultimate weekend of his Australian training career.

Whether the history books are a bigger hurdle than superstar Zaaki is the big question facing John O’Shea’s talented galloper Diamil in Saturday’s Listed $200,000 Buterin L’Estrange Gosford Gold Cup (2100m).